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WEBThe Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. The ground is sinking. A crater nearly a kilometre wide has opened in the Siberian forest as permafrost there melts for the first time in 650,000 years. The revealed ground, depicted on the cover, is releasing thousands of tonnes of carbon into the ...
Thermal Baths in Vals, Switzerland by Peter Zumthor
WEBAug 16, 1997 · Since 1896. Thermal Baths in Vals, Switzerland by Peter Zumthor. Resonant with an elemental materiality and full of myriad therapeutic delights, Peter Zumthor’s thermal baths at Vals are conceived as a cavernous, labyrinthine haven devoted to sensual pleasure. First published in AR August 1997, this piece was …
Louis Kahn: The Space of Ideas - The Architectural Review
WEBOct 23, 2012 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. The citadel-like volume of Kahn’s National Assembly rises up from a red brick base surrounded by water. The National Assembly in Dhaka, Bangladesh, employs symbolic geometries to evoke the origins of architecture and institutions.
Riverside Museum by Zaha Hadid Architects, Glasgow, UK
WEBJun 29, 2011 · Glasgow’s new Riverside Museum, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA), cuts a rather lonely figure. Built to re-house Glasgow’s much-loved Museum of Transport, this twisted metallic shed lies at the confluence of the Kelvin and Clyde Rivers, its immediate surroundings a derelict wasteland. This barren prospect is …
Charles Moore (1925-1993) - The Architectural Review
WEBJul 28, 2017 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. Charles Moore was the wizard who led us out of the sterility and self-importance of Modernism and showed us that we could go home again. Charles Moore, the Oberon, Merry Prankster, and Mystical Guru of late-20th-century architecture, had the …
Etienne Louis Boullée (1728-1799) - The Architectural Review
WEBNov 21, 2016 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. No amount of careful philology will ever fully explain Boulleé’s extraordinary dream or evocative influence. Throughout the 20th century, numerous architects whose careers were cut short by the French Revolution have been re-entered one by one into ...
Augustus Pugin (1812-1852) - The Architectural Review
WEBApr 24, 2012 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. Assessing the legacy of Big Ben’s creator on the bicentennial of the architect’s birth. This year marks the bicentennial of the birth of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812–1852) and the event is being celebrated in numerous seminars and ...
Gaudi’s Sacred Monster: Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Catalonia
WEBJul 25, 2012 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. Barcelona’s standing as a world tourist destination relies heavily on Antoni Gaudí’s Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family, or Sagrada Família − the temple is the most popular tourist attraction in the city, with over two million ...
Revisit: Aranya low-cost housing, Indore, Balkrishna Doshi
WEBAug 14, 2019 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. Revisit: Aranya low-cost housing, Indore, Balkrishna Doshi. Doshi’s ideas on housing the poor culminated in 80 model homes in Aranya where residents felt empowered by the opportunity to improvise. This is one of …
Retrospective: Robbrecht en Daem - The Architectural Review
WEBAug 22, 2018 · Despite wildly different briefs and sites, the architects’ tactics, both of organisation and of figuration, are unmistakable. After 40 years of practice, by dint of both accident and choice, Robbrecht en Daem’s work has attained an unusual breadth. Theirs is a kind of general practice, or serial specialisation.
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